A company that supplies 208 contract workers to the Toyota auto plant on SA's South Side recently learned they would not be rehired when the plant resumes operations in November. These positions were well-paying jobs, between $13 to $15 an hour.
San Antonio freelance writer Tony Cantu broke the story:
A recently released layoff notice to state officials reveals new details on the fate of more than 200 temporary workers put out of work from the recent South Side Toyota temporary plant shutdown.
Aerotek Inc., a national staffing company with offices at 10010 San Pedro Ave., notified state and city officials in June of plans to lay off at least 200 of its temporary workers at the Toyota plant’s assembly line.
Documents show the layoff ends employment for 208 workers – eight more than previously disclosed. The jobs lost offered better-than-average wages locally; assembly workers having earned the highest wages at an average $13.88 an hour topping out at $15.23 an hour on the high end of that pay scale.
"Due to economics, high price of fuel and low sales of large trucks, Toyota had to make a business decision," Aerotek’s account manager Jon Boggess said. "We were supplying employees for their assembly line, but unfortunately our workforce was eliminated."
Earlier this year, Toyota plant officials disclosed they would halt production at the facility until November to help rid itself of its existing inventory of Tundra trucks produced there.
(Above, an aerial photo of the South Side Toyota plant by Jerry Lara/ San Antonio Express-News)
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